> Donny wrote:
>
> OK heres a weird problem ive been having recently. Its resulted in me re-installing
> mandrake 6.1 a number of times, and the same thing happened in redhat 6.1.
>
> On occation, ive had to restart, unproperly... without using the reboot command. Ive
>had
> to do this when it locks up or something.
>
> When i reboot, X wont start. So i have to boot into runlevel 3 to get to the console.
> When i run startx from the console, it gives the error:
>
> failed to set the default font path 'unix/:-1'
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> HELP!
I've had this happen a few times, but why do you need to restart "unproperly"??
Just hit cnt/alt/F2 and boot into another session, login as root, then shutdown -r
now..
My X fails to start every so often. Not sure why.. But this will avoid an
improper shutdown..
Alan
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